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BBC Audio show on Gerard Manley Hopkins - Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of Hopkins (1844-89), a Jesuit priest who at times burned his poems and at others insisted they should not be published. https://t.co/cXh2SG969o

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@CherokeeRoseUp has had a great year: 4 book pubs & a bevy of awards, including a @FulbrightAwards. She is a citizen of Cherokee Nation, & an interdisciplinary artist, poet, author. https://t.co/Gtp3NgDq6c. One of her new books: Mehta, J.C. Selected Poems: 2000–2020. @NotAPipePub

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@mag_gabbert's The Breakup is the winner of @balticresidency chapbook contest judged by Kaveh Akbar. Mag is author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS @ohiostatepress (2023) & chap: MINML POEMS @CooperDillon. She teaches at @SMU. And she was a 2021 @92YPoetry Discovery Award recipient. https://t.co/wn6iZYsF2k

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Recent @ActionSpectacle contributor Gabino Iglesias' The Devil Takes You Home in NPR's book coverage/recommendations @mulhollandbooks https://t.co/TNhgVkeVE1

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Baltic Finalist, @lghughesauthor has published a book series over the past two years, Black Forest, Gold Mountain, & the newest is Lilac Island (2021). From the author: "Stories of different people in different times and places, all with one thing in common: a promise of hope..." https://t.co/ElgpWpc0Le

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Kirk Wilson's collection, Out of Season, is winner of 2021 Elixir Press Fiction Award. Meanwhile, Kirk's poetry collection SONGBOX was released in August as the winner of the 2020 Trio Award from @triohousepress. Kirk's website is https://t.co/lKljfGC86e. https://t.co/j96bjU8ZNA

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Ashbery reading perhaps his very best poem (which is saying something) along with the text of the poem: The Skaters, first published in a literary journal in1964, and appearing again in his fifth collection of poems, Rivers and Mountains in 1966 @PennSound https://t.co/cb7kNfB1Zh

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@mag_gabbert's The Breakup is the winner of @balticresidency chapbook contest judged by Kaveh Akbar. Mag is author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS @ohiostatepress (2023) & chap: MINML POEMS @CooperDillon. She teaches at @SMU. And she was a 2021 @92YPoetry Discovery Award recipient. https://t.co/wn6iZYsF2k

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families @PGourevitch @fsgbooks abt Rwanadan genocide is 1 of THE best books I've ever read ~National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner @bookcritics , PEN Literary Award Winner @PENamerican https://t.co/DeSLsHRmrH

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Baltic finalist, & award-winning author, Evan James, has a fantastic book of essays, I've Been Wrong Before, about his travels around the globe as he reflects on the power and complexity of human relationships. He wrote th novel Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe. https://t.co/Jzf676Qt5b